This article is part of Bísness School, a series that highlights one of the fastest-growing groups of entrepreneurs in the United States, Latinos. You can hear or watch the full conversation with Martin Cabrera below.
Martin Cabrera still remembers the question his high school economics teacher asked him.
“He had asked the class, ‘Who knows what a stock and a bond is?’” Cabrera said. “And I was like, ‘Oh, I know. A bond is something between a man and a woman.’ And he’s like, no, no, that’s not what we’re talking about.”
What Cabrera’s teacher, Jim Ortiz, was talking about was the kind of bond that refers to a loan investors make to an entity in exchange for payment back with interest.
“He explained to us what the stock market was, and he challenged us as well,” Cabrera said.
The high school senior had grown up in Little Village, a …